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Write about the following topic. The most important function of music is that it helps people reduce stress. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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People
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 believed
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 is a fundamental factor in their lives
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 because the most prominent factor that helps humans is to reduce
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 through listening to songs or instrumental
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, but some opponents claim that
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 is distracting and disturbing. ,
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 I agree that
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 reduces our
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 and my point of view about
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 statement will be adequately discussed in the subsequent paragraphs. To commence with, from the ancient era
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 held different views about listening to songs. Humans used harmonious sounds to relax their hormones,
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 type of hormone is called endorphins which are stored in moods of singing and happiness
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 will reduce
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 of
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. As an example, one of my friends always listens to
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, which she tells us that it helps her to fight
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the
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 she is going through, especially while she is at work she used to listen to songs over and over again to keep her warm up throughout the day.
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 is one of the best ways to relieve your
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.
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, listening to
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 is one of therapy for
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, specifically for
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 who are working in a stressful environment
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 as doctors and teachers. As an example, doctors play
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 enormous role, during an operation inside the theatre some doctors ask to play
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 to deprive themselves of the stressful situation they are going through.
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, to conclude I strongly agree that
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 is the most common way to combat
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 because it releases a certain kind of hormone to relax
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 and is used as a therapy.
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